If you read the last post first you’d probably be wondering, ”Hospital, why is Adam at the hospital?” If you haven’t read it, read it. We had to go to the hospital after the game to have my brother checked out for any injuries, just in case. In the second period he was checked twice in a row, the second one was checked into the boards crippling him to his knees. The guy got a boarding 5 minute major penalty for that. Needless to say, he was both tired and pissed off. During this game with the Canadian team, they got their asses handed to them 6-0. In the game was a bunch of penalties and retaliation penalties from both teams. When the score was 5-0 one of the Canadian players blatently wraps his arm around one of our players and wrenches him down to the ice. The both got penalties, one for holding, the other for (I think) unsportsmanlike conduct. I’ll let your imagination go with that one… After this game I’m sure they’re out of the running for the championship game on Monday, which leaves only one game left tonight, but it doesn’t really matter anymore. So, we pretty much have 2 free days in Washington. Any ideas of what I should go see?

Bah, I’m using dial-up just to write this… I found an odd phone in the Bellvue Hospital. It’s a web browser/high speed access/pay phone. Ok, so it may be old and I’ve just never seen one, but that’s just it; I’ve never seen one. I thought it was the coolest thing, I even tried it out. Or, at least tried to try it out. Costing only fifrty cents for the first two minutes and a quarter every additional minutes seemed like a good price for a quick blog. However, for some reason it wasn’t working correctly. I couldn’t log into my blog, nor could I even see my index. Oh well, I got some cool pictures of it.

”I went to a fight today, and a hockey game broke out.” But, more on that later…

Tonight, we went to a minor league hockey game (Yeah, like I’ve had enough hockey yet) between the Seattle Thunderbirds and the Lethbridge Hurricanes. While not a very stimulating game at first, being completely one sided and ending with a score of 10-1; but I HAVE to say, it was THE BEST hockey game I’ve EVER seen! Why such a strong remark? Well, when you’re behind 9 points you and your team get a little frustrated, hard to NOT understand and sympathize. However, this usually leads to penalties, and usually the really fun-to-watch kind. I, of course, am talking about fights! Penalty after penalty was called, but not buy just one team, but both. Which goes to show, don’t retaliate when you get checked, tripped, whatnot.

The best part in this game was mostly the last 5, or so, minutes of the game. In those minutes, the game was practically dragged out to about a half an hour because of some cool fights. The highlight of the game was during a fight and basically everyone was paired off and the refs lost all control, I saw the guest goalie take off his helmet and started to skate away from his crease, at first I thought he was skating to the bench, but then he passed the center circle and skated toward the home goalie and started another fight. We actually got some good footage of that. The first one is only 5 seconds because my brother didn’t know where the zoom was. The second is 15 seconds. That was the first time I’ve ever seen or heard of a goalie fight. But when you’re getting scored on so much in one game, you really have nothing to lose. It was GREAT! There were 58 penalties called in that game. Who ever said minor leage hockey is boring!?